Boeing hit by WannaCry virus, but says no impact on jet production

[mountaineer]

Boeing hit by WannaCry virus, but says no impact on jet production
 Updated March 28, 2018 at 4:38 pm
Boeing was hit by the WannaCry computer virus Wednessay, initially raising fears within the company that airplane production could be affected. Later Boeing played down the impact and called it a “limited intrusion” with production unaffected.
 By Dominic Gates
Seattle Times aerospace reporter

Boeing was hit Wednesday by the WannaCry computer virus, initally raising fears within the company that it could cripple some vital airplane production equipment. 

Mike VanderWel, chief engineer at Boeing Commercial Airplane production engineering, sent out an alarming memo calling for “All hands on deck.”

“It is metastasizing rapidly out of North Charleston and I just heard 777 (automated spar assembly tools) may have gone down,” VanderWel wrote, adding his concern that the virus could hit equipment used in functional tests of airplanes ready to roll out and potentially “spread to airplane software.”

Late Wednesday afternoon however, Boeing issued a statement playing down the potential impact.  ...

 The WannaCry virus, which exploits a flaw in Windows to gain access to a network, attacks computer’s software using “ransomware.”  It locks users out of their computers until they pay a fee, sometimes in cryptocurrency, or other type of ransom.  ...

Full story at Seattle Times

[Frank Cannon]

After denying this computer virus had any effect in design software, Boeing introduced their new commercial plane to the public.....

[thackney]

After denying this computer virus had any effect in design software, Boeing introduced their new commercial plane to the public.....

That is not for commercial use.  That is the new AF1.

[MajorClay]

Oh crap